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Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition - by Donald Kagan (Paperback)

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  • Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta?
  • About the Author: Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University.
  • 400 Pages
  • History, Ancient

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About the Book



In the third volume of his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C.



Book Synopsis



Why did the Peace of Nicias fail to reconcile Athens and Sparta? In the third volume of his landmark four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the years between the signing of the peace treaty and the destruction of the Athenian expedition to Sicily in 413 B.C. The principal figure in the narrative is the Athenian politician and general Nicias, whose policies shaped the treaty and whose military strategies played a major role in the attack against Sicily.



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"The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in the twentieth century is vivid.... Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers. To read Kagan's 'History of the Peloponnesian War' at the present hour is to be almost unbearably tested."-George Steiner, The New Yorker



A profound analysis of the relation of strategy to politics, a sympathetic but searching critique of Thucydides' masterpiece, and a trenchant assessment of the voluminous modern literature on the war.

--Bernard Knox "The Atlantic Monthly"

This is a solid piece of scholarship, a readable, consistent, and understandable account of a difficult period in Greek history, and rife with astute and provocative observations on Thucydides.

-- "The Historian"



About the Author



Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.05 Inches (H) x 5.92 Inches (W) x .95 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.18 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 400
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Ancient
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Theme: Greece
Format: Paperback
Author: Donald Kagan
Language: English
Street Date: May 14, 1991
TCIN: 88970038
UPC: 9780801499401
Item Number (DPCI): 247-50-1324
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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